Volume 8 [Nya]- Yang Zab Nam Mkha’ Mdzod Chen — I

10.1163/ej.9789004168237.i-499.30

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Chapter Summary

The Yang zab nam mkha' mdzod chen is one of the five Treasuries composed by Shardza Rinpoche. It is made of two volumes covering liturgical texts and technical or yogic instructions on various aspects of devotional, ritual, tantric and rDzogs chen practices. This work has been summarized and commented by Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche in Heart Drops of Dharmakaya, Snow Lion, 1993. The chapter includes as instruction manual on the practice of the g.Yung drung sems dpa' lta ba bshags pa'i mdo which was discovered by bDe chen gling pa and included in volume 12 of his Collected Works. The text was written by Shardza Rinpoche at the behest of Tshul khrims rnam dag. It first describes the practice of the "four teachings which reverse the [ordinary] mind." An important work composed by the sMan ri abbot bSod nams g.yung drung at the request of his disciple is also discussed.